Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alice Paul

It is incredible to me that any woman should consider the fight for full equality won. It has just begun. There is hardly a field, economic or political, in which the natural and unaccustomed policy is not to ignore women…Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.

Alice Sebold

Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I would rather be raped a thousand times. You do what you have to.

Alice Walker

But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

Alice Walker

In my opinion and experience, imperialists of all nations and races will tell us anything to keep us fighting. For them.

Alice Munro

The unhappiest moment I could never tell you. All our fights blend into each other and are in fact re-enactments of the same fight, in which we punish each other--I with words, Hugh with silence--for being each other. We never needed any more than that.

Alice Hoffman

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.

Alice Childress

It's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.

Alice Cary

Desolate--Life is so dreary and desolate-- Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan-- Holding and having its brief exultation-- Making its lonesome and low lamentation-- Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.

Alice Eve

People are weird. We do live on all levels at the same time and you can be fighting and flirting, and there can be fury and sexual tension. All that stuff can co-exist so it's just a testament to how complex we are. Or maybe it's a testament to how boringly we try and simplify everything.

Anne McCaffrey

Fight only in direst need Not for lust or petty greed Honor those that do give birth Respect them well for their full worth

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I am beginning to respect the apathetic days. Perhaps they're a necessary pause: better to give in to them than to fight them at your desk hopelessly; then you lose both the day and your self-respect. Treat them as physical phenomena -- casually -- and obey them.

Anne Lamott

I sat down in the sand, breathless with shame and failure. God, I thought, some defender of the weak. Some freedom fighter: Joan of Arc in sunscreen.

Dinesh D'Souza

In my view, the pro-life movement at this point should focus on seeking to reduce the number of abortions. At times it will require political education and legal fights, at times it will require education and the establishment of alternatives to abortion, such as adoption centers. Unfortunately, such measures are sometimes opposed by so-called hard-liners in the pro-life movement. These hard-liners are fools. Because they want to outlaw all abortions, they refuse to settle for stopping some abortions; the consequence is that they end up preventing no abortions.

Dick Morris

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

Dick Morris

Like the battleships of old, omnibus programs present too tempting a target, too easily destroyed by a single attack, to make it through a fight.... It is through incremental change after change, step after step, that a statesman of today can vindicate a bold vision.

Dick Morris

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

Dick Morris

In fighting scandal, the key is not to overreact.

Desmond Tutu

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Desmond Tutu

The matter of the abuse and cruelty we inflict on other animals has to fight for our attention in what sometimes seems an already overfull moral agenda. It is vital, however, that these instances of injustice not be overlooked.

Desmond Tutu

We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make the decision: are we going to survive or are we waiting for our extinction? One day we will wake up and find people are fighting not for oil but water.

Deepak Chopra

When resources become skimpy, human beings don't suddenly cooperate to conserve what's left. They fight to the last scrap for possession of a diminishing resource.

Deepak Chopra

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Deborah Ann Woll

All of the secrets the vampires held dear have been exposed, and the humans can now fight back as equals in a way, which is scary.

Amandla Stenberg

Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

Amber Heard

I'm fighting for the right to get married. For other people.

Amber Heard

I have been in my fair share of both onscreen and off screen fights.

Cicely Tyson

I am not a quitter. I will fight until I drop. It is just a matter of having some faith in the fact that as long as you are able to draw breath in the universe, you have a chance.

Chuck Zito

If the challenge to fight was there, I always took it.

Cillian Murphy

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

Chuck Todd

The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.

Chuck Norris

When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least!

Alfonso Cuaron

Historically, there is a fight between the sound designer and the composer. You see them in the mixing room and they're always fighting because the composer wants the music to be heard and the sound designer wants the sound to be heard.